Table 1.
List of investigated food, feed and energy crops.
Figure 1.
Map of the 23 world regions: AFR (Sub Saharan Africa), ANZ (Australia, New Zealand), BEN (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg), BRA (Brazil), CAN (Canada), CHN (China), FRA (France), FSU (Rest of Former Soviet Union and Rest of Europe), GBR (Great Britain), GER (Germany), IND (India), JPN (Japan), LAM (Rest of Latin America), MAI (Malaysia, Indonesia), MEA (Middle East, North Africa), MED (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus), PAC (Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay), ROW (Rest of the World), REU (Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria), RUS (Russia), SCA (Finland, Denmark, Sweden), SEA (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh), USA (United States of America).
Figure 2.
Membership functions for climatic, soil and topographic conditions.
Table 2.
Applied global datasets.
Figure 3.
Global comparison of agriculturally suitable area between GAEZ (Baseline period 1961–1990) and GLUES (1961–1990).
Figure 4.
Comparison of total agriculturally suitable area of GAEZ (Baseline period 1961–1990) and GLUES (1961–1990) for different regions.
Table 3.
Classified suitability considering rainfed conditions (1981–2010).
Figure 5.
Agricultural suitability considering rainfed conditions and irrigated areas (1981–2010).
Table 4.
Classified suitability considering rainfed and irrigated conditions (1981–2010).
Table 5.
Classified suitability for 1981–2010 considering rainfed and irrigated conditions, excluding protected areas.
Figure 6.
Current use of suitable areas (1981–2010), considering forest cover [46], protected areas [45] and current pasture and cropland (Ramankutty et al., 2008).
If forested areas are agriculturally suitable and protected, they are attributed to ‘suitable protected area’.
Table 6.
Classified suitability for 1981–2010 considering rainfed and irrigated conditions, excluding protected and densely forested areas.
Table 7.
Classified suitability for 2071–2100 considering rainfed and irrigated conditions, excluding protected and densely forested areas.
Figure 7.
Global changes in agricultural suitability categories (million km2) between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.
Figure 8.
Regional change in agricultural suitability categories (million km2) between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.
Figure 9.
Regional change of agriculturally suitable area due to A1B climate change scenario between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.
Figure 10.
Regional changes in the average suitability between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.
Figure 11.
Change in agricultural suitability between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.
Green areas indicate an increase in suitability while brown areas show a decreasing suitability.
Figure 12.
Start of the growing cycle for maize (1981–2010).
The start of the growing cycle is illustrated for rainfed conditions and for irrigated conditions on predominantly irrigated areas (irrigated area > 50%). In case of multiple cropping, the map shows the start of the first growing cycle.
Figure 13.
Suitable areas for single, double and triple cropping (1981–2010).
Multiple cropping is illustrated for rainfed conditions and for irrigated conditions on predominantly irrigated areas (irrigated area > 50%).
Figure 14.
Change in area suitable for double and triple cropping (million km2) between 1981–2010 and 2071–2100.